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Our country is not a democracy. A true democracy is mob rule, and the founders of our nation saw how bad that could be firsthand. Especially those who lived in Massachusetts, where the practice of tarring and feathering was employed against British officials and loyalists. The action was quite brutal. Hot tar was applied to the skin, sometimes with a brush or just poured over, and then feathers were thrown onto the tar.

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